The Mahdi Times The Mahdi Times Issue #24 November 2014 | Page 35

Tablet Six : The Key Of Magic

Hark ye, O man, to the wisdom of
magic.
Hark the knowledge of powers
forgotten.
Long ago in the days of the first man,
warfare began between darkness and
light.
Men then as now,
were filled with both darkness and
light;
and while in some darkness held sway,
in other light filled the soul.
Aye, age old in this warfare,
the eternal struggle between darkness
and light.
Fiercely is it fought all through the
ages,
using strange powers hidden to man.
Adepts has there been filled with the
blackness,
struggling always against the light;
but others there are who, filled with

brightness,
have ever conquered the darkness of
night.
Where e'er ye may be in all ages and
plane,
surely, ye shall know of the battle with
night.
Long ages ago,
The SUNS of the Morning
descending, found the world filled
with night,
there in that past, began the struggle,
the age old Battle Darkness & Light.
Many in the time were so filled with
darkness
that only feebly flamed the light from
the night.
Some they were, masters of darkness,
who sought
to fill all with their darkness:
Sought to draw others into their night.
Fiercely withstood they, the masters of